Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process-conference

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• Thursday 25 March 2010, 10:00-18:00
• Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, room Hel 252.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Jussi Parikka.

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The AHRC funded networking project ‘Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics’ event will combine a series of position papers followed by round table discussions and interventions exploring the issues and challenges raised by those papers.

The attempt to grasp the depth and breadth of network politics demands novel and transdiciplinary approaches not always native to the humanities and social sciences, such as graph theory and the study of code as cultural practice. Thus there is a drive to explore the broad spectrum of practices and discourses to help rethink the articulations of politics in network culture. New modes of political activity that take advantage of new platforms from Twitter to Youtube necessitate new conceptual positions for network culture, counter-power and resistance. The papers should work towards adapting concepts such as, for example but by no means exclusively, the Multitude, free and immaterial labour, emergence, swarms and ‘smart mobs’ and new forms of creation, activism and engagement in civil society. The aim is to rethink what we understand by politics. Further questions which need to be asked include: what kind of epistemologies do we need to incorporate into our analysis? How can we take into account the particularities of networks when approaching the elusive, ephemeral nature of politics of/in networks? These are just examples of the directions into which considerations of “network politics” might lead us. Because this is such a fast developing and challenging arena of research the event will aim to be open and fluid, encouraging engagement, conversation and innovation wherever possible while focussing on this core problematic of exploring the tools and processes for thinking network politics.

Speakers include, among others: Sean Cubitt, Greg Elmer, Olga Goriunova, Tony D. Sampson, Ganaele Langlois.

Conference registration: https://store.anglia.ac.uk/events/eventdetails.asp?eventid=20

http://www.networkpolitics.org/content/thinking-network-politics-conference

This talk is part of the ArcDigital and CoDE talks at Anglia Ruskin series.

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